Sleeping Through a Game Winner

Posted in Uncategorized by Flavor on April 16, 2014

I did NOT stay up to watch the conclusion of last night’s win. I shut it down around 10:30–the same time some of you east coast guys shut it down. And I continue to be amazed at your abilities to stay up past 1am to support the team. My body clock and my life are not built for that type of stamina. :)

Anyone starting to feel like Hector Sanchez = Candy Maldonado? I’m not looking it up, but I have memories of Candy piling up the walk off hits (pinch hitting or otherwise). That’s a great name, isn’t it? “Candy.” You wouldn’t catch too many cats rollin’ with that name in 2014. I think I heard Kruk say that Hector has 4 walk off game winning hits in his career.

That’s pretty good. I might start calling him “Candy”.

If you stayed up to watch it live, regardless of the coast you call home, good on you……

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I didn’t make it to the end either but the highlights this morning were nice. I always liked Candy. Used to have an autographed bat from him. It is great to see Belt, Crawford and Sanchez contributing.

He’s flubbed a couple routine ones but second game in a row Hicks made a tough stop on a smash hit to his left.

Even tho he looked a little off, Romo getting Hanley out was awesome duel. Gotta love pinning another blown save on Jansen too.

Affeldt supposed to be activated today. Machi only faced a few guys, Lopez only threw 5 pitches, 1 inning each for Romo Casilla Petit. Vogs actually has better ERA than guy he faces tonite…wonder how many times SF will be able to say that.

Good for Hector, Arias and Blanco too. Was kind of funky seeing Morse and Posey on the bench late while LA still had their regs in there except for Gordon and Crawford replaced by Kemp.

Chi, unfortunately I’m not going to be able to make it. It’s one of my favorite give-aways, but I won’t be there this year.
The games I have coming up in the next couple of months are 4/25 vs. Cleveland, 5/14 vs. Atlanta, and 5/28 vs. Cubs.

Yeah, not sure how many more of these post-midnight games my old tired ass can handle. Couple that with staying up late the previous night to gander at the blood moon, and my ass was just a wee-bit tired this morning. I had said I was throwing in the towel after the 11th, but just could not pull the trigger.

Nice to get a grind it out win against the bums in an extra inning game in which the Giants never lead.

We need a good outing from Vogey tonight. Paging Nicole…paging Nicole, please have your husband serviced and ready to go. Thank you.

One of the beautiful things about basball is how a whole mini-drama can play out within a game. Sanchez got kind of ripped off by the homeplate ump in the 9th inning on two wide strikes for Jansen. And then that same inning Pagan and Belt picked him up by scoring a run. Then, later in the game, Sanchez got the opportunity to get the game-winning hit and succeeded. Great stuff. And I dug what he did after he got the hit. He rounded first, and then lied down on the infield and curled into a fetal position. That is SO cool. I’ve been waiting to see a player do that. Like, “I’m going to protect myself from the pummeling.” Although I think, in general, from what I’ve seen, teams are starting to tone down those excessive celebrations a bit. The A’s had a nice one the other night. The guy got the game-winning hit, his teammates made a tunnel, he ran through it, about three guys patted him on the back as he went through, and…..that was it! Nice. No chance of injuring anyone. And, hey, it wasn’t the 7th game of the World Series.

Good observation, Zumie. Those strikes called against Sanchez were same, location-wise, as pitches to Crawford (and I think Pagan) earler, and were at that time called balls. Inconsistency by an ump is the worst. I can deal with a fucked-up strike zone as long as the ump is consistent.

I have no problem with Amy G. and all the other sideline reporters in sports. Just….some of the questions after the games are kind of inane.
“How important is it to win a game like this?”
And the player says “huge” about 98% of the time.
“When you got that big hit, what were you trying to do?”
And the players says “I was just looking for a pitch to hit” about 98% of the time.
Yeah, I know it’s all part of the schtick, but it doesn’t really contribute much to anything.

I have no problem with baseball’s annual Jackie Robinson recognition, and the wearing of #42, etc. It’s baseball’s on-going apology to African Americans barred from MLB so many years. MLB network showed tweets from players honoring Jackie Robinson. Without Jackie Robinson day, a lot of these current players probably wouldn’t even recognize his name.

I agree and have no problem with it. I heard a comment in this regards where it was mentioned that many kids probably ask “daddy, why are all the players wearing 42?” And this gives the parent a chance to explain it to the kid, and hence, a step is made in another generation being educated.

With only two off days between now and May 19, I think they will carry 13 for the foreseeable future. None of the likely pitching candidates (Gutierrez, Machi, or Huff) have options. Perez does. I think he’ll be the short man out.

I fell asleep too, so missed the feel good “Hector” ending. I understand that Hector’s wife and daughter (probably sound asleep too) were in the car waiting for this game to end, as his daughter had school in the morning.

Thanks for bringing home a winner, youse guys. What a grind of a game, it was 2AM when I went to bed at the end of the 9th. Four hours for it to go nine, hell, the game was around the three hour mark in the 7th. I know we left at least 1,000 guys on base, I think the Giants were probably lulled to sleep by that fucking Beckett and his slow mo shit, He should have been called on that crap, the Umps needed to start calling those delays balls. Fuck Beckett, our guys on Second should have been making major obscene gestures to him every time he looked that way, I know I was and will be, until his bullshit prima donna career is over.

Yeah, TV on, sound low. I figured I’d either wake up when the game was long over, or hear the roar and it would wake me up. Which is what happened. Good stuff. Belt continues to be baffling. In a good way. Looking like he’s way overmatched swinging at total crap, and then coming up with the game typing seeing-eye double down the LF line in the bottom of the 9th. Pagan, hair flying, scores from 1st. Awesome.

What was it though? 16 LOB? Aaaaaaaaak! That’s flat horrible. The Dogs did their share of not capitalizing as well, tho. They musta had 124 LOB of their own.

Encouraging outing from Tim Tim. I think Dee Gordon took 10 pitches to get out in the 1st AB of the game. It didn’t get easier for Timmy as the game went on. Lots of pitches. Lots of mistakes that the Dodgers didn’t blast. Except for Jazz Hands. Esp HamRam. He had a few hangers that he missed.

I’ve commented before that last season, Timmy’s left leg would fly off to the left, making him open way up when finishing the delivery, and IMO, contribute to wildness. From highlights of last night, I see Timmy’s left foot is coming down and landing much more straight on directly towards the plate than last year — better balance is obvious to me. He’s got a K/BB ratio of 17:1 so far, which is pretty darn good, to say the least. What kills him is the occasional gopher ball up in the zone, either fastball or specialty pitch, and it gets hammered. Plus, he throws too many pitches into the count. The batters have decided to just take and take on him if he doesn’t get an early strike, and wait for a gopher pitch since he no longer can throw 94. He’s got to figure out how to be more efficient getting strikes low in the zone ala Hudson. 5 innings with 90+ pitches just doesn’t get it done, the Pen will get gassed. Re: that, I would switch Tim into the #3 spot and keep Voggy #5. Hudson goes in between if he keeps throwing into the 7th or so on a regular basis. IMO it’s a bad idea to have two guys that are only giving you 5, maybe 6 innings tops, starting consecutively. The 3, 4, 5 thing is nothing but numbers. The Pen will get worn out from consecutive nights’ heavy workload…

Good observations. At least we know now that Timmy’s adjusted approach allows him to work his way through traffic without having that blazing out-pitch. It’s logical to assume that he will work on his pitch efficiency next, who knows, maybe he’s developing a sucker-pitch on the side which just looks soooo good to the hitter.

Bullpen depth in the pipeline with Law, Hembree, Hall, Dunning and Runzler currently the most likely options, with Kontos perhaps capable at some point of recovering his utility as well. So if a reliever or two does get overworked and develop tired arm syndrome or some other debilitation, we do know that there is a virtual pizza menu of options for instant relief.

I was so pissed when the Pen gave up the lead after the Giants had tied it!! Too much torture at that point. I quit watching after the 2 back to back innings they loaded the bases and did not score. WTF?? Are you kidding me. Both times the Giants had less than two outs!! Anyway turned on the MLB station this morning to watch the highlights. What a game!! Nice win.

I was so pissed when the Pen gave up the lead after the Giants had tied it!! WTH…Giants never led until they won it in the 12th.

And the bullpen has been nails…they are the LEAST of the team’s problems right now. Problem with the pen is that if the starters keep up their current shenanigans, the pen will be outta gas in a month.

The most poetic yingyang dingdong fuckin ending this morning would have been BWheezy taking the loss.

(Great thread, Magnus. Sadly, my strongest memory of Candy “Great Name” Maldonado was his losing a ball in the lights in the 1987 playoffs when John Tudor of STL beat Dave Dravecky. Is my memory correct?)

Yes, Candido collapsing on Oquendo’s fly resulted in a Cardinal sin and the NL Championship only to get Twinked by Kirby Puckett, Kent Hrbek & Associates for Minnesota’s first ever World Championship. Would have loved to see Giants vs Twins that year but the reason for that might be found in a thoroughgoing read of Voltaire’s ‘Candide’.

Hey Snarkk,
What’s your take on Cal’s new Basketball Coach Cuonzo Martin formally of Tennessee?
I like the hire, he was takin some heat early on this year from the Vols alum but then turned it around to go 24-13 and making it to the semi finals before losing Michigan.
A recruit is already jumping ship to come to Cal, Kingsley Okoroh, a 7-1 Center from England who verbally committed to Tennessee under Martin till he bailed on them and now is following him to Cal

Cal’s hiring decisions remind me of the Seinfeld episode when George had the epiphany that if he just did the opposite of what his instincts told him to do his life would be perfect.
Cal’s AD is George Costanza pre-epiphany.

I think a major reason for the hiring is he’s bringing that 7 footer and another good recruit or two with him. Other than that, no clue, haven’t looked much. Sandy baby (the AD) apparently wanted the assistant that Montgomery recommended, but the higher ups (and probably money guys) overruled her. She’s on the hot seat — if the football season craters again, she’s in deep doo doo…

Silliest sports headline in a while: “Michael Phelps is coming out of retirement.” Apparently he had retired. Who knew? I’m pretty sure the public won’t consider him retired until he actually misses an Olympics.

Conor Gillaspie had a hitting streak of 10 games . . . Meanwhile, that POS Headley has done squat this season and is probably going on the DL. Only mention this because I have this worthless ^$%@* on one of my fantasy teams. Speaking of 3rd baseman, I also have Miguel Cabrera on one of my teams. Pfffftttt! Another sure out (thus far this season) in my line up. Grrrrr . . .

I know the Dodgers are starting southpaw Paul Maholm, but why is Crawford out? He has been mashing lefties so far this year (7-for-14 with five extra-base hits). Seems as if he is doing well against them and they should continue to throw him out there. Or, how else is he suppose to get better?

As the season was starting, Craig said something like if we’re seeing a lot of Pagan salutes on the bases, we’ll be doing well. I’ll second that and add if we’re seeing a lot of Pagan rounding third and sprinting home, mane a-flyin’, we’ll be doing even better. Love watching that dude churn toward home, watched that clip several times last night.

I love Juan Uribe. He could hit 20 homeruns against us this year and I’m not gonna sweat it. It’s not the same as Kent or Butler going Dodger. I don’t know how to explain it. Every time I see Uribe wearing a Dodger uni I still smile. He was part of “the first one” and you never forget that. I’m happy for him; he’s one of the few former 2010/2012 defectors that actually kept playing well.

Contrarian point, but if Scully hadn’t been doing this for a thousand years would we all be loving his folksy, slow, solo call of the game? I’d rather listen to K/K 100 times out of 100 times. Scully does nothing for me.

well, based on the last 2 comments, you are in the decided majority. :)
He just keeps saying the same shit over and over. I think if he had someone else in the booth he wouldn’t do that.
The only thing I like about him is that he doesn’t player homer favorite at all. He calls it equally the same way and doesn’t have a problem with calling out a Dodger player. That’s rad, more announcers should have the sack to do that. In Scully’s case, he’s been around long enough to not give a shit about what other people think

I’m not sure what to make of Scully. He’s been doing games since the 50s and has some wonderful stories to tell that no broadcaster can begin to match. And he’s not an annoying homer that seems to be the prerequisite for all announcers these days. But being a solo act in the booth, my god, he goes on and on and on and just never shuts up. My guess is when he’s gone, we’ll all miss him if for no other reason than his replacement will be indistinguishable from all the other MLB announcers.

I like Scully. He isn’t a homer to the Nth degree like the imbeciles we have announcing Sherpa games. That being said, I really can’t be picky – since I have a pirate feed and I have no control who announces the games.

“we’re in the bottom of the 5th inning” –Scully said 4 pitches into the bottom of the fifth inning. See, that’s what I’m talking about. He’s either senile or just saying shit to say shit. It’s mostly pointless comments. He’s got too much time on his hands in that booth.

He’s definitely not senile Flavor. He just riffed on a Sandy Koufax game back in the Pleistocene age and then followed that minutia up with the other half of the double header, where Don Drysdale pitched and won. Who remembers this shit? I forget where my keys are after placing them down a half hour beforehand. .

Well, Vin probably hasn’t said anything as silly tonight as Kruk’s proclamation that walking Maholm with 2 outs was a “good thing.” Not that I don’t agree with the Scully criticisms. He’s always been a hype.

If I was scouting Posey, I’d say that teams lately have been stealing strike one on him by throwing off-speed stuff on the first pitch, and Posey keeps taking them for strike one. He might need to make an adjustment and look for that on the first pitch.

Only heard the game after the 7th inning, sounds like Voggy was in good form. Good sign, that. And, Panda with the winning hit. The usual one run game — nice to take the series already. Maybe this Dodger team ain’t so hot, boys? Make hay while Kershaw is out…